He's Home, and He's Gone Again

I wrote this post yesterday hoping to obviously post it, but never did.  Then today life handed me a full day of "no way you are going to get to workout."  So here I am about to go to bed without a workout, feeling bloated (I dont know why either -frustrating), and husbandless... again.  So here is what I worte yesterday.

    "So happy the daddy man is home... for half a day.  Anyway, we have had playing around with him today, which has been awesome.  Workout was awesome today as well.  I did some core work again (as per the Turbo Fire class schedule) but I also did a Hatha flow yoga.  It was awesome.  I currently use YogaGlo.com.   I love it.  They have like 10 different types of yoga you can choose from, and there are different levels, you can also choose a class based on the amount of time you have.  Its really great.  I recommend checking it out, they have a 15 day free trial."

Seriously I love yogaglo.  I really wish I had two hours a day to workout and do yoga.  C'est la vie.  Anyone remember that song from our childhood?

Yep, that just happened.  I found the video.  It really has nothing to do with anything, but I wont be wondering what the heck that song was when I go to bed in 5 minutes.

So here are the pictures from yesterday.

Interviews

My husband has been gone since yesterday afternoon, doing interviews for Podiatry school.  He had one today in California and he has one on Friday in Florida, he is home for most of the day tomorrow and then he flies to Florida Thursday morning.  So we are kinda lonely over here in my neck of the woods.  Its really weird how him being gone doesnt make me want to make dinner or even get ready during the day.  I showered, but I got right back into sweats.  I really need to change my mindset because a whole week of this could be bad... for every body.  Tell me if I'm wrong, my husband being gone warrants me eating a carton bowl of ice cream.  I think its alright, its not exactly healthy or clean or whatever, but it sure does taste good, and I controlled how much I ate...kinda.  But i did work out for an hour, so that's a plus.  So far I haven't gotten in yoga.  The kids think i am a jungle gym when I do yoga, so its really hard to do when they are awake.  Its telling me to focus, find my center, block out anything going on around me, and Roxy is on my back while I'm trying to do down dog, and Atticus is pulling on my hair because its within his reach.  Its just so hard to stay focused in those conditions.

Ugh, I feel like this post is even lack luster.  I'm glad some friends and I are getting together for a girls night, but all I really want is my man back.  Miss him.  He did well on his interview today, though, and he really enjoyed the school and the people he met, but I just want him home.  Also, I did workout yesterday, I just didn't get the chance to take pictures or blog.  We were just too busy getting everything ready for David to fly out.

So if my stomach looks a little bloated, its because it is.  I know.  I'll get better with eating.  If you are reading this and have your special someone nearby, give them a hug and a kiss (or give them a call or text) and let them know you love them, 'cuz all I want is to hug my man.  Here's looking forward to tomorrow when he gets home.

Don't Do It

How do you feel about fasted cardio?  Some people love it, some people dont like it.  I for one do it either way.  I have no preference.  Most mornings, I eat my reals regular and fit in a workout when available.  However, some days I just dont get breakfast.  I wake up just a little bit late and the kids need me for everything (psh, you'd think a 2yr old and a 9 mo old should be able to change diapers, wipe bums, get dressed, feed themselves and clean the house by themselves now right...?) so breakfast becomes a thing of yesterday.  Before I knew it, it was 2 hours after I had woken up and I hadnt eaten anything.  But it was my little window of opportunity to work out.  So...  Yeah, I did it.  I worked out.  BAD IDEA, LAUREN.  Meal prep fail, I had nothing to just pop in my mouth so i could have something pre-workout.  Plus it was a 55 min workout too.  You know its really bad when your stomach is growling through the warm-up.  So long story really short.  I made it through 30 mins before I hit fatigue.  Its crazy when you feel it.  I was warm and doing great, and then my muscles started to hurt, and then i lost my breath and I just couldnt do it anymore.  My energy was all gone.  Literally my first thought was, "...man i wish i had a Gu or something..."  I hate those things, but they give you a fast energy boost.  The rest of the day I spent trying to catch up to my stupid mistake, I had a headache all day and I was in so much pain.  I couldnt even do yoga (sad face.)  Never doing that again.  Worst ever.  Ugh.  Well I got lots of sleep and feel better today but here's how I was yesterday... watching the rest of the workout finish...

Me and my minty protein shake, trying to feel like a person again.  Bah! Twenty mins left in the workout.  Sad.

But Im over it.  Done.

Here is today after some core work and some stretching.

Dead

First of all, my wireless keyboard is dying.  So... that sucks, just know that if there are misspelled words or letters missing, its not my fault, its the keyboard doing everything it can to make me sound illiterate.  Also, I'm pretty sure I died before as well;  What other reason would I have for not writing on my blog?  I actually lost motivation (say it aint so!!!), and I also let myself believe that because school was starting I didn't have to work out.  That i had an excuse.  So after many months of believing that anything goes (and I was feeling like my 9 months olds diaper filled with yesterdays nanas), I decided to get back to it.  Honestly, I got my motivation back from my friend Tara Sommerville (not Sommerville anymore, definitely had to look up on facebook for her married last name... I'm a good friend right?!?! Don't answer that) Tara Carpenter.  She said that I was her motivation.  How sweet right?  Literally gave me my mojo back.  I didn't know/think I would seriously be anyone's motivation, totally awesome!  But this time around I am doing something different.

Confession:  Insanity is NOT my jam.  In high school I swam and I still love to swim, and that was my cardio, so now that Im doing "dry land" cardio, gah, I hate the sweaty- messy- ness.  So if you've done it you know, you sweat buckets.  Not only that but insanity makes my brain bored.  For some reason I just have too much time to think when I do it, so then I loose focus and dont push as hard and I dont feel the high of pushing through cardio.  I seriously go through the motions with Insanity.

So the something different that I am doing is TurboFire.  Anyone who knows me, knows that I lalala love Chalene Johnson.  She epitomizes everything that I want to be.  She is fun, energetic, a successful business owner, a great mother, wife and friend- plus more.  I gush.  She is the first "celebrity crush(?)" I have ever had.  Seriously, I want to meet her and just follow her around one day.  But Chalene is the -ish, aaaannnd she created TurboKick, TurboJam, TurboFire, PIYO, and Hip Hop Hustle.  Now, I am a work-out-at-home-r, at least right now, so I like me some work out DVD's.  So I do TurboFire, TurboJam is her older DVD series, but the rest are classes you can take at a gym.

TurboFire is like Taebo, but with some dancing involved, and awesome music, and this blonde cheerleader (Chalene).   I also sweat buckets (gross)  but she is peppy and the music helps me to stay on task and its like dancing, so the steps and choreography keep my brain engaged and focused on form, on how hard I am pushing and other things than how much I hurt.  Awesome.  Before, I did Insanity because my hubba-bubba wanted to do it.  He loves Insanity.  I wanted to work out with him, so I did it. Luckily Sadly we lent out our Insanity videos to a friend, so now the only ones we have left are TurboFire.  Wah Wah, now he has to do my workout!  (He doesnt like it because the choreography takes a few times to get it and he feels dumb and whatever).  But I've been having so much fun with Turbo.

Also, life is so much better with Yoga.  I do it everyday.  Love that its a challenge but its so relaxing and it doesn't make me pant like a dog.  But that's for another post, another day.

So here is the start of TurboFire.  I work out while David is at work or school, so I don't have a photographer anymore.  So the pictures are in an area of bad lighting and they just are bad, but until I find a new way to do it this might be the place for a while.  Sorry, not sorry.